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Haus-Kino: The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Film Screening|Against it! - Indignation, protest and resistance in film

Der 20. Juli, dir. Falk Harnack (1955) | Wolfgang Preiss als Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg © CCC Filmkunst GmbH

Der 20. Juli, dir. Falk Harnack (1955) | Komplott © CCC Filmkunst GmbH

Der 20. Juli
Germany (BRD), 1955, 97 min. 
Regie: Falk Harnack
Mit, u.a. Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag, Fritz Tillmann, Werner Hinz, Peter Esser, Wolfgang Büttner, Hans Zesch-Ballot, Karl Klüsner

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. - This documentary-style film recounts the preparations for and ultimate failure of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. Only two coincidences—Stauffenberg was disturbed while sharpening the explosive charge, and in the crowded meeting room he was unable to place the charge in the most favorable location—saved the dictator from death. Finally, uncertainties in the transmission of messages delayed the launch of the planned coup until Stauffenberg arrived in Berlin. After the war, a civil engineer, former Captain Lindner, and one of Hitler's secretaries, Hildegard Klee, recall those days in the courtyard of the former OKW building on Bendlerstraße.

Made at the same time as the G.W. Pabst film It Happened on July 20th.

The film series "Against it! - Indignation, protest and resistance in film" is presented by the Goethe-Institut Montreal in collaboration with students from Collège Maisonneuve.The donations collected at these screenings will be used to fund a trip for students to Berlin as part of the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2026.